The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-27

coast. AZ hlJLy lldNh tHe dPpaidtu9
for measuring the force OF the wind
at the Signal Station was blown away,
and the observer estimates the velocity
of the wind at 122 miles an hour. Sew
eral vessels are known to have been
damaged, and two steamers and a tug
are reported ashore at different points.
Near Marion, Indiana, on the 22d,
Reece HulInger descended Into a 30
foot well and bored for gas, while
Christopher Sisson worked the windlas.
A sudden flow OF gas overcame Hulin-
ger, and Slsson, going into the well to
rescue HIM, both persisted from suffo-
cation. Later in the day, an under
taker, named Buchanan, who started
out to prepare the bodies for burial,
became the victim of a runaway acct
dent, and ms recovery is doubtful.
W. Stanley Day. aged IS years, OF
Spencer, Tioga county, New York,
committed suicide on the 21st because
his wife refused to get up at five
O'Clock in the morning to prepare his
breakfast. He leaves a child and a
twelve thousand dollar farm. A few
years ago bis father committed suicide
because a railroad was built across his
farm against his wish.
The second section of the Cincin-
natl express, on the Pan Handle Rail-
road, jumped the track near Skelly's
Station, So miles west of Pittsburg, on
the afternoon of the 23d, and was pre-
cipitated over an embankment into a
creek. Engineer George Thompson
xror FnIanw ord Gaorua MARYLAND
baggage master, and James McCol-
Tough, fireman, seriously injured.
George Norvin was slightly hurt. The
cause of the accident is not known.
Thomas McFerran, a grocer of
Allegheny, Penna., while standing i'll
front OF his store on the morning OF
the 23d, had his skull crushed in by the
falling of a large iron letter from the
sign above the door. He died in about
an hour. Lightning struck a house at
Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, OF the
22d, and killed a seven-year old child.
One man was killed and two
others were dangerously injured by an
explosion Of natural gas while repair
ing a Joint IN a pipe at Monroevllle,
Penna., on the afternoon of the 23d.
Application has been made to the
authorities in Washington for the ex-
tradition of two half-breed Indians re-
Gently arrested in Montana on suspicion
of having been concerned in the murder
of Hector McLeish, near Wolseley, in
the Northwest Territory.
AT Lancaster, Penna., on the 2S1,
Alexander Leibsley, convicted of muir
der in the second degree for the kill
ing o fGeorge W. Pontz, was sentenced
to eleven years in the Eastern Peniten-
tiary.
Peter Gross, aged IA years, was
arrested in Brooklyn on the morning
of the 23d on the charge of having
murdered his wife, Gertrude, aged 10.
| Her body was found on the floor with
the head beaten in. The couple had
| always been ''hard drinkers" He said
the woman was injured by falling
! ac-siSU the Sto\ EThomas Dott, a
| farmer of Gibsonia, Penna., was IA
tally stabbed on the morning of the
23d by a farm hand whom he had just
discharged. The murderer escaped.
Reports received in Charleston on
the morning of the 23d, from the mum
dated rice fields of the South Santee
district of South Carolina, indicate that
| the damage is not general. High tides
have prevented the freshet from cover
ing the large plantations along the
river, and the greater part of the crops
is considered safe. On the North San
Tee colored planters on small farms have
suffered disastrously, their crops beng
reported as totally destroyed.
Two slight earthquakes were felt
in Yeddo, Japan, on July 18th. A
severe shock was felt at Nagoaka on
the 22d ult., which did great damage to
porcelain shops aud dwellings, and In
jured several persons.
A fire in Nashville, Tennessee, on
| the evening of the 23d, destroyed the
Standard OH Works, Pearce's dlst;lleTy
and SWANS marble works. Loss, Sl0U-
600.
I'm the one hundred yards swim
ming contest given by the New York
| Athletic Club on the Harlem river, ON
the 231, three OF the nine contestants
broke all previous records. They
were: IL. t. Braun, of the Pastime
| Club, time, l minute II 1-5% seconds; II.
| E. Taussaint, of the New York Ath-
letic Club, / minute IL 2-5 seconds; W.
5. Bull, of the Spartan Harriers, time,
l minute II AS seconds.
Two men, named Lefevre and La
Fleur, accompanied by three women
and four children, were crossing the
st. Lawrence river, near ~Boucherville,
on the 22d, when their boat upset. The
men swan ashore, the women and chill
dren were drowned.
The time allowed by law for the
redemption of trade dollars will expire
on September Sd. Up to date the
amount received is a little over s., 400,-
600. The number OF these dollars held
in this country was estimated at
1906, 600, and the excess in redemp-
tion is accounted for 10y importatlons
Fl ON China IN Japan,
-Warrents for pensions to the
amount of SIC, 253, 900 we're issued on
the 23d by the Treasury. Notwith-
standing this large payment, the excess
OF Government receipts over expendl'
ture since the first of the month is
about s., 800, 000.